Window-screen construction



W. H. RAY.

WINDOW SCREEN CONSIRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, I9I9.

Pawmea 1060.13, 1921.

W. H. RAY.

WINDOW SCREEN CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.28,1919.

1 ,399,878. Y Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

W. H. RAY.

WINDOW SCREEN CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2a, 1919.

1,399,878, Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

TEW

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM. EL RAY, OF MONROE, MICHIGAN.

WINDON-SCREEN CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed. February $38, 1919.

To all @0.7mm it may concern Be it known that I, ILLIAM H. RAY, ofMonroe, Michigan, in the county of Monroe, in said State, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Vlindow-Soreen Construction, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to window screens, and more especially thosewhich are adapted to be raised and lowered, or moved out of the windowin some manner when not needcd; and the improvement, in the specificapplication thereof hereinafter described, relates more particularly tothe inclosed bodies of automobiles, and contemplates the provision insuoli a structure of window sashes which can be raised and lowered, aswelles screens which can be raised and lowered, whereby the closed bodyis adapted for use in summer as well as in winter.

Generally stated, therefore, rthe object of the invention is to providea novel and com paratively inexpensive and simple window construction ofthe foregoing general character, involving a sash which can be easilyraised and lowered, and a screen which can be readily raised andlowered, and a means whereby both the sash yand the screen can be storedout of the way when not in use.

It is also an object to provide certain details and features ofconstruction tending to increase the general eiiiciency and desirability of a window sash and screen construe` tion of this particularcharacter.

To the foregoing and other useful ends the invention consists in mattersherein setV forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawingsn Figure 1 is a vertical section of aportion of an automobile body, showing a sash and screen constructionembodying the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the upper portion of the screen.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but show- Speeii'lcation of LettersPatent.

Patented Deo. 13, 1921.

Serial No. 279,813.

Fig. 7 is a perspective of the upper portion of the sash.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged vertical section of the lower portions of thescreen and sash, and adjacent portions of the window'frame, and of thelock for the sash.

9 is an inside front elevation of the said lock.

As thus illustrated, the automobile body comprises a side frame (1) ofsuitable character, and a top (2) that extends over the frame, it beingunderstood that the body is thus provided with the usual or suitableopenings in the'frame. The under side of the top is provided withparallel guides (3), which extend horizontally in a direction rightangles to the plane of the upright frame (1), and similar guides (1) arepro vided immediately below said other guides, being preferably formedby sheet metal strips suitably bent to provide the grooves which formthe guides.

The window sash (5) is of any suitable character, and is provided at itsupper end with pivots which engage the openings (7) when the ash isdown, and which slide in the guides (3) when the sash is moved into itsstorage position under the top.

rllhe screen is of any suitable character, and has its upper endprovided with pivots which slide in the guides (4) when the screen israised and pushed horizontally into its storage position, but when thescreen is down the pivots (9) then en ge the recesses (10) in the frame.The ne of the screen have strips of felt (11) which bear against theframe to malte it tight, and similar strips (12) are provided on theside edges of the sash. rllhe lower portion of the window frame has aridge (13) which is engaged by the groove (111) in the lower edge of thescreen vhen the latter is down. The lower portion of the window frame isalso provided with a ledge which is engaged by the catch (16) on thescreen when the latter is down, and said catch occupies a no 'ch of anysuitable character (not shown) in the upper portion (17 of the framewhen the screen is raised, so that the ring or handle (18) of the catchis in position to be employed to pull the screen outwardly and thendownwardly into the window. The lower portion of the sash is providedwith a lock to engage the recess (19) in the frame,

thereby to prevent the sash from swinging outwardly. rlhis lockcomprises a vertically movable member (20) which is made hollow toreceive the cam (21) mounted on the transverse pivot (22), said member(20) having its upper portion provided with a ridge (23) which bearsupon the top of the cam. Said cam has a handle (24) adapted to swingdownwardly into the recess (25) formed in the member (20), and by thismovement of thc handle, said member' is raised from the notch (19) inthe frame, thereby unlocking the sash. When the sash is raised, 'and thehandle swung into the recess (25), as shown in Fig. 3, said handleprojects outwardly into position to be employed to pull the sashoutwardly and then downward into the frame. Springs (26) are interposedbetween the top of the member (20) and the upper wall (27) of the sheetmetal casing in which the mechanism of the lock is inclosed, whereby thememberr(20) is yieldingly held in its locking position.

Springs (28) are provided to bear upon the sash (5) when in raised orstorage position, so that it willnot rattle iup and down.

The top of the body has a lower wall (29) below the storage position ofthe sash and screen, which wall can be of'any suitable ma terial,whereby the sash and screen 'are concealed from view, andare practicallyinside of `the structure of the top when in raised or storage position.

rllhe weather strip (30) of any suitable material is preferablyinterposed between the ridge (13) and the inner side of the sash (5) toinalre a tight joint, and the strips (11) bear against the verticalstops (31) at the sides of the window frame when the screen is movedoutwardly, and then swung downwardly to its position in the frame. The.recesses (10) are so formed that the screen can be raised slightly whenin lowered position, in order to Vdisengage the groove (14e) at itslower edge from the ridge (13), whereby the screen may then be swungoutwardly and into a horizontal position in order to bring it intoalinement with the guides (4) previously described.

From the foregoing it will be seen that when the sash (5) is down inplace in the wndow frame, the body of the car will be closed, it beingunderstood that all of the openings of the body are thus equipped withmovablesashes. However, in summer time, the sashes can be raised andmoved into their overhead storage positions in the top of the body, andthe screens can then be pulled out- Y ward and downward into the'opening or window frames of the body.

Opf course, with the construction shown and described, the sash must bein raised position to permit the screen to be raised or lowered. llVhenthe screen is down, the sash canbe pulled down from the outside.

If both the screen and the sash are down, then the screen can be raiserslightly and swung inwardly, thereby affording access 'to the lock, sothat the sash can be unlocked; and then the sash can be raised from theoutside and moved into storage position in the top, leaving the screendown. Also, of course, the sash can be swung outward a little at thelower edge thereof, and held in this position by the handle (2l), thusaffording ventilation. The construction is such, it will be seein-thatthe screen 8 is manually release-ble and operable entirely from withinthe automobile, and this is also true of the sash 5, for when the screenis in its storage position it not necessary to go outside of theautomobile to release the sash from its lowered position. Inl otherwords, when-the sash is in raised position, the screen 'can be releasedand raised without the necessity of going outside of the automobile tomanipulate any .devices or parts of the structure, and when the screenis in raised position and the sash is down, the latter can be releasedand manually raised from within the automobile, as at such time nomanipulation of any devices` outside is necessary. Also, it will be seenthat the top portion of the sash in the` plane of 'its horizontallydisposed guides 3, and'that the top portion of the screen 8 is in thehorizontally disposed plane of its guides 4, when the sash and screenare in their lowered positions. The top portion of the window framepreferably has a weather strip 32 against which the upper portion 33 ofthe sash bears, when the sash is in lowered or closed position, therebyto maire the win.- dow dust and air tight at the top thereof. Thus, asstated, notwithstanding that the top portion of the Sash is tightlyclosed when the sash is lowered, the sash can be raised without anymanipulation of any parts outside. The screen is a sash, of course, aswell as the outer sash in which the glass carried, and thus either sashisl adapted to be released and manually manipulated from the inside ofthe automobile in the n'ianner explained.

In the combination of the glass window sash and the wire screen sash inone and the same window frame structure, with provisions for storing thetwo sashcs in "an overhead position, Vit will be seen that one sash isnecessarilyhigher than the other.V

1. In a convertible summer and winter top for an automobile, an uprightframe, a top above said frame', inclosing means including a screen andcomprising a movable sash which is higher than the screen for saidframe, and horizontally disposed guides extending over the upper end ofthe screen and disposed in position in said top to receive the sash,with the upper end of the sash in the plane of said guides, whereby thesash may be swung outward at its lower end and then raised and movedhorizontally over the screen and into an overhead storage position underthe top, the sash being manually releasable and operable in this mannerentirely from within the automobile;

V2. A structure as specified in claim l, said screen being of lessheight than the sash, and means whereby said screen is movabledownwardly from the storage position thereof below the stored sash to aposition in said frame, so that the sash and screen are adapted to beused interchangeably in sait frame.

3. A structure as specified in claim l, with the limitations of claim 2,having guides for the screen, all of said guides extending horizontallybelow the top, and the sash and screen having pivots that slide in saidguides and which permit either the sash or the screen to swing downwardafter being moved outwardly below said top.

4. A structure as specified in claim 1, with theI limitations of claim2, the screen being movable from either position thereof only when thesash is in raised position, and means for retaining the lower edges ofthe sash and the screen in position when lowered into the frame.

5. A structure as specified in claim 1, in combination with a lock forthe lower edge of the sash, having a swinging handle for operating saidlock and which extends outward horizontally in the plane of the sashfrom its position above to afford means for pulling the sash down intothe frame.

6. The structure covered by claim 5, in which said lock has a lockingelement which is movable up and down in the lower'portion of the sash,and a cam operated by said handle to raise and lower said element, theloch being formed with clearance for permitting the handle to move intothe position which it must assume to form the means for pulling the sashdownward into the frame.

7. In an automobile, a top extending overhead, a frame below the outeredge of the top, summer and winter inclosing means including a sash anda movable screen of different heights in said frame, so that the sashextends above the screen, and means whereby said screen is manuallyreleasable and operable entirely from within the automobile and ismovable into a storage position under the top, and whereby the sash ism0vable into and out of said top.

8. In an automobile, the combination of a frame, an overhead top, amovable sash for said frame, a screen which is movable into and out ofthe frame, the sash and screen being of different heights and meanswhereby the sash is manually releasable and controllable entirely fromwithin the automobile and is adapted to be raised into a storage position under the top.

9. In window construction, the combination of a sash, means whereby saidsash is movable upwardly into an overhead position for storage, a screenof less height than the sash for the window, and means whereby saidscreen has an overhead storage position and is movable downwardlytherefrom after the sash is raised, both the sash and the screen beingmanually releasable and controllable entirely from the inside thereof.

10. A structure as specified in claim 9, said means comprising guidesfor holding the screen and sash horizontally, one below the other, andpivots on said sash and screen to engage said guides, in combinationwith devices to lock the lower edges of the sash and screen in placewhen lowered from the storage position thereof.

11. A structure as specified in claim 7, said sash being movableupwardly into a storage position in the top, a lock for the lowerportion of said sash, said lock having an operating handle which extendsupwardly between the sash and screen, when the sash and screen are bothdown, and which extends outward from its upper position to form a handlefor raising and lowering the sash, said screen when lowered beingmovable inwardly a distance at its lower edge to afford access to saidhandle.

12. The structure covered by claim 5, said handle being adapted toextend upwardly between the sash and screen, when both the sash and thescreen are in lowered position, and to extend outwardly at the top ofthe frame when the sash is in the storage position thereof.

13. In an automobile, an upright frame, a top above said frame, amovable sash disposed in said frame, and guides in said top to receivethe sash, so that the sash may be raised and stored in an overheadposition under the top, in combination with a screen of less height thanthe sash, and means whereby said screen is movable downwardly from thestorage position thereof below the stored sash to a position in saidframe, so that the sash and screen are adapted to be usedinterchangeably in said frame.

14. In an automobile, an upright frame, a top above said frame, amovable sash disposed in said frame, and guides in said top to receivethe sash, so that the sash may be raised and stored in an overheadposition under the top, in combination, with a screen of less heightthan the sash, and means whereby said screen is movable downwardly fromthe storage position thereof below the stored sash to a position in saidframe, sothat the sash and screen are adapted to be used interchangeablyin said frame, having guides for the screen, all of said guidesextending horizontally below the top, and the sash and screen havingpivots that slide in said guides and which permit either the sash or thescreen to swing downward after being moved outwardly below said top.

15;V In an automobile, an upright frame, a top above said frame, amovable sash disposed in said frame, and guides in said top to receivethe sash, so that the sash may be raised and stored in an overheadposition under the top, in combination with a screen of less heivht thanthe sash, and means whereby said screen is movable downwardly from thestorage positionthereof below the storedsash to a position in saidframe, so that the sash andsereen are adapted to be used interchangeablyin said frame, the screen being movable from either position thereofonly when'the sash is in raised position, andV means for retaining thelower to receive the sash, so that the sash may bel raised and stored inan overhead position under the top, in combination with a lockv for thelower edge of the sash, having a swinging handle for operating said lockand to ai'ord means ior pulling the sash down into the frame, said lockhaving a locking element which is movable up andl down `in the lowerportion of the sash,and Y a cani operated by said handle to raise andlower said element, the lock being formedv with clearance for permittingthe handle to move into the position which it must assume to form themeans for pulling the sash downward into the iframe. i i

WILLIAM H. RAY.

